Monthly Archives: October 2011
Book Review: Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Chad Wellmon, Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, 326pp. Becoming Human belongs to two emerging trends in the study of Kant and his… Read more
Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory
James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009.
Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?… Read more
Jonathan Judaken: Interview with Annie Cohen-Solal
Host Jonathan Judaken talks to renowned Satre scholar Annie Cohen-Solal, author of a number of books and essays on Satre, including the international best-selling biography, Jean-Paul Satre: A Life. Annie Cohen-Solal… Read more
Intellectual Roots of Wall Street Protest Lie in Academe – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anarchism in action. The intellectual origins of Occupy Wall Street aren’t in Cambridge or Morningside Heights. They’re in Madagascar…
Drucilla Cornell: The ‘Enabling Violation’ of International Adoption
Defining adoption as “trauma” betrays a prejudice in favor of the traditional heterosexual family.
CFP : Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion June 15-16, 2012 Ryerson University Toronto, Canada We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on the topic… Read more
Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies: Vol 2, No 1 (2011)
Introduction Gonçalo Marcelo Affirmation originaire, attestation et reconnaissance: Le cheminement de l’anthropologie philosophique ricœurienne Jean-Luc Amalric Paul Ricoeur’s Surprising Take on Recognition Arto Laitinen Recognition and Exteriority: Towards a Recognition-Theoretic… Read more
Psychoanalysis Meets Existentialism: Robert Stolorow on Trauma and Authenticity
Trauma tears apart the context of everyday certainties that sustains us, as Robert Stolorow shows in his new World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011). Stolorow, a founding… Read more
Book Review: The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Tom Stern, University College London Mellamphy’s book aims to draw… Read more
SHAKESPEARE AND PHILOSOPHY
A Seminar with Simon Critchley | June 30- July 7, 2012 Whether tragical, comical, historical or lyrical, the vast human panorama of Shakespeare’s work raises many of the deepest and… Read more
CFP: The International Journal of Badiou Studies
The International Journal for Badiou Studies is an international, peer-reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the philosophy and thought of, and surrounding, the French philosopher Alain Badiou.
Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy
Thomas Nenon (ed.), Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy, 343pp., vol. 1 of Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy (8 vols.), University of Chicago Press, 2010, 2700pp…. Read more
New Left Review: September-October 2011
The roots of today’s Great Recession are usually located in the financial excesses of the 1990s. Wolfgang Streeck traces a much longer arc, from 1945 onwards, of tensions between the logic of markets and the wishes of voters—culminating, he argues, in the international tempest of debt that now threatens to submerge democratic accountability altogether beneath the storm-waves of capital.
The Stone: Occupy Wall Streets Political Disobedience
The Wall Street protests represent a refusal to engage the worn-out ideologies rooted in the Cold War.
Martin Heidegger (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements… Read more
Alan A. Stone: Imagining Faith
The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick In the movie, one sees, roughly, a family, the O’Briens, dealing with the death of one of their own. Then, nothing less… Read more
The Stone: Freud as Philosopher
Sigmund Freud, that seer of the psyche, taught that you could be angry and not know it. You can also be a philosopher and not know it. And Freud was… Read more
Slavoj Zizek en Occupy Wall Street
[...] “[They are saying] we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called… Read more